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What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

#11

Post by sharkweek »

fat wrote: post #10
cpeterso wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think most people would imagine a project called " Twitter Bootstrap" that was developed by people "employed at twitter on twitter hardware" would be property of Twitter. Does Twitter own the copyright?

right now it's under the Apache License v2 – but we're working to move it to MIT for 3.0.0 I think of the community as owning bootstrap at this point… maybe that's cheesy? Or naive… I also think twitter played a larger roll than just hardware. Mark and I were both deeply embedded into the twitter culture (with access to great resources and really smart engineers to bounce ideas off of) and i think bootstrap has a ver…

(speaking of cheesy) Those who just create awesome tools and release them into the ecosystem free of charge add immeasurable value to the community. I really want to thank you for how much easier you two have made my life with bootstrap on numerous occasions.

Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by fat »

sharkweek wrote: post #11
fat wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

right now it's under the Apache License v2 – but we're working to move it to MIT for 3.0.0 I think of the community as owning bootstrap at this point… maybe that's cheesy? Or naive… I also think twitter played a larger roll than just hardware. Mark and I were both deeply embedded into the twitter culture (with access to great resources and really smart engineers to bounce ideas off of) and i think bootstrap has a ver…

(speaking of cheesy) Those who just create awesome tools and release them into the ecosystem free of charge add immeasurable value to the community. I really want to thank you for how much easier you two have made my life with bootstrap on numerous occasions.

aww <3

Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by Domenic_S »

fat wrote: post #13
sharkweek wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(speaking of cheesy) Those who just create awesome tools and release them into the ecosystem free of charge add immeasurable value to the community. I really want to thank you for how much easier you two have made my life with bootstrap on numerous occasions.

aww <3

Same here. I'd offer to buy you a beer, but I imagine you've got plenty of those offers already ;)

Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by iamweswilson »

tdrnd wrote: post #8
NathanKP wrote: post #2

Interesting... For some reason I had always assumed that Bootstrap was associated more closely with Twitter because it had the word "twitter" in the name. Now I understand why some business are so concerned with preventing other websites and people from using their name. I'm not saying that Twitter should have demanded that these guys change the name of their framework to something else, but this is a good object les…

I think the message the blog post is conveying is that Bootstrap grew out of two developers wanting to build something, not out of a manager wanting to setup an internal project and assemblying a team being instructed to work on the project.

Seems like the first ingredient in building successful start-ups and useful tools. Beings a passion project filling a need helps too.

Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

#17

Post by cryowaffle »

fat wrote: post #13
sharkweek wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(speaking of cheesy) Those who just create awesome tools and release them into the ecosystem free of charge add immeasurable value to the community. I really want to thank you for how much easier you two have made my life with bootstrap on numerous occasions.

aww <3

I have used Bootstrap on 4 or so sites by now and its amazing how divs just get the fuck out of my way now and I can get real work done. Thank you.

Re: What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap

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Post by DannyBee »

fat wrote: post #10
cpeterso wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think most people would imagine a project called " Twitter Bootstrap" that was developed by people "employed at twitter on twitter hardware" would be property of Twitter. Does Twitter own the copyright?

right now it's under the Apache License v2 – but we're working to move it to MIT for 3.0.0 I think of the community as owning bootstrap at this point… maybe that's cheesy? Or naive… I also think twitter played a larger roll than just hardware. Mark and I were both deeply embedded into the twitter culture (with access to great resources and really smart engineers to bounce ideas off of) and i think bootstrap has a ver…

If you have no contributor agreements/licenses, how do you plan on moving it to MIT?

From what I see, the best you have is: "By contributing your code, you agree to license your contribution under the terms of the APLv2: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE

(which isn't really that helpful)

Speaking as an corporate IP/open source lawyer, doing this wrong can hurt you very badly in the long run.

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